European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 08, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse The s tvs a n fes rip is vol. 52, no. 296 50c president Clinton on monday sen Congress a $1.52 trillion budget for fiscal 1995 that would trim or kill thousands of programs. His plan has a few increases too but shows the Federal deficit declining to the lowest level since 1989. The proposed defense budget hold the line on Overall spending Cut some weapons Slacken the Pace of troop cute and target More Money for training and research. Give serve remembers a 1,6 percent pay raise the lowest increase since 1963. If v jux b pro Vida for Qualaky of Elf improvement and Otter construction projects for bases i Europe. See stories and charts on pages 4 and $ is vegas comes up aces in Urban growth Washington a la vegas the glittering gambling resort in the Nevada desert was the fastest growing metropolitan area in the United states in the Early 1990s, the census bureaus id monday. Only two other metro areas Laredo Texas and Yuma Ariz. Reported double digit growth. Las vegas grew by 13.9 percent Between 1990 and 1992, to population of 971,169. There were 203.2 million people living in the nation s 268 government recognize metropolitan areas in july 1992, an increase of 2.8 percent since april 1990. The number of people living outside metropolitan areas grew by 1.8 percent to 51.9 million. New York Northern new Jersey Long Island is the largest metro area with 19.7 million people ii 0.6 percent. Among the 10 largest metro areas Houston grew the fastest at 6.2 percent. Only one of the top 10 lost population Boston Down 0.3 see vegas on Page 2 tuesday february 8,1994 to my 8693 a i i non backs Ca ii to r nato a i St r i ices from wire reports Washington president Clintono monday endorsed a . Call for nato approval of airstrikes against bos Nian serbs. Secretary of state Warren Christopher said the allies will consider a Range of actions this week. In a Houston speech largely devoted to economic issues Clinton said he had Long hoped in. Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali would ask nato to authorize military retaliation for attacks on Muslim civilians in Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina. But the president said until those folks get tired of killing each other Over there bad things will continue to Ghali urged the North Atlan tic Council on sunday to approve air strikes following an attack saturday on Sarajevo Market that left 68 people dead and More than 200 wounded. Christopher apparently going beyond the . Leader s threat said we will respond to the specific rather narrow see Clinton on Page 3 843 John Boht bosnian evacuees Chat with each other at the Lan Stuhl army regional medical Center s gymnasium in Germany on monday. Bosnia evacuation a race against time by Jimi Jon Sand Steve scholar staff writers Ramstein a and Lan Stuhl Germany whener. Capt Vince Michaud flew into Sarajevo aboard an air Force c-130 aircraft he had Little time to Check out the sights. We were isolated not allowed to leave the aircraft he said. The French brought the patients. We loaded them and took off Michaud assigned to Ramstein s 2nd aeromedical evacuation so was aboard one of two . Aircraft that flew into the bosnian capital sunday. Based in Germany the planes were there to evacuate 50 patients and other survivors of saturday massacre in a Sarajevo marketplace that left 68 dead and More than 200 wounded. The exploding mortar Shell believed to be the work of bos Nia s serbian fighters came about noon turning Market Day into the bloodiest civilian Nightmare since Sarajevo s sieges so a Georgov began in april 1992. Air Force officials said monday that or. Capt Vince Michaud describes his medical flight to Sarajevo. See Bosnia on Page 3 mysterious Snow it s everywhere but what is it see Page 17 the . Dollar hits a two year High against the German Mark see Page 16
